Extension garment hanger



Sept. 24, 1929. J. T. BATIS 1,728,919

EXTENSION GARMENT HANGER Filed Feb. 24. 1925 s Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 24, 1929. J. T. BATTS EXTENSION GARMENT HANGER Filed Feb. 24, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inwmior JohnThqmasBafis.

Sept. 24, 1929. J. T. BATTS EXTENSION GARMENT HANGER Filed Feb. 24. 1925 a Sheets-Shet 3 14w John'ihomas Baits Patented Sept. 24, 1929.

PATENT orrlcs 7 JOHN I HOMAS BATTS, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA EXTENSION GARMENT HANGER Application filed February 24, 1925.

This invention relates to garment carriers which are particularly useful when used in connection with delivery vehicles or in other places where, due to transportation of the garments, the hangers on which the garments are hung may be disconnected from the car-.

rier on account of trafiic shocks. It is a primary object and purpose of the present invention to make a garment carrier of the ex tension type which may be readily mounted on a vehicle, and on which the various different hooks used. to suspend the garmenth angers from the carrier may be received and also, one on which the hooks of the garment hangers may be securely held in place against any accidental disengagement fromthe carrier. The construction also contemplates a very simple and economical structure of gar.- ment carrier device and one which can be manufactured at a very low cost of manufacture. To these ends, as well as others which will appear, the invention is directed as will be understood from the following descrip tion taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which, t

Fig. 1 is a side elevation with parts in section, showing the garment carrier of my invention. i

Figs. 2, 3 and 4am vertical sections taken on the planes of lines 22, 33 and 4- 1 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a partial side elevation and ver tical longitudinal section through a vehicle equipped with the garment carrier of my invention.

Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical section through the body of the vehicle and through the garment carriers therein.

Fig. 7 is aview similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a slightly different and, for some reasons, a preferable form of structure of the garment carrier.

Fig. 8 is a transverse section through said carrier between the ends thereof, showing the hooks of the garment hangers held against disengagement from the carrier, and s Fig. 9 is a like section illustrating the automatic holding of the hook engaging member out of operative position when the carrier is extended.

Serial No. 11,036.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The vehicle 1 may be of any preferred type, beingshown as a motor vehicle which carries a body 2, at its rearend having doors for access to the interior of the body. The top of the body atits under sidecarries a plurality of front and rear blocks 3 between which are other supporting blocks 3, the former being for the support of the garment carriers and the latter for the support of the hook holding or retaining member in the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive. i

I have shown two of the garment carriers mount-ed side by side in the body 2 and each, at its inner end, is supported from a bracket 4 rigidly secured to and depending from one of the supporting blocks 3. At the outer end a bracket 5 of novel design is used, the same being fixedly secured to an outer block 3, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. This bracket at one side has a depending section 6 which, at its lower end, is turned inwardly under the upper body portion of the bracket making a neck 7, there being an enlarged and wide recess 8 between said neck 7 and the upper portion of the bracket above it.

- A rod 9, substantially square'in cross section, is secured at its rear end to the bracket 4, suitable ears '10 extending from the bracket one to each side of the bar 9 to which said bar is permanently secured. The bar, at its front end, extends over the end of the neck 7 resting on a horizontal flange 7 formed at the end of said neck and is permanently secured to said flange by a suitable pin as shown in Fig. 1. The outer end of the bar 9 projects a short distance beyond the bracket 5 and has its intermediate portion cutaway for the reception of a roller 11 which is mounted for free rotat-ive movement on a pin 11? passing through the parts 9*" at the outer end ofthe bar 9 left when said middle portion thereof is removed.

An inverted U-shaped channel having a top 12 with depending sides 13 is placed over the bar 9; the sides 13 passing one at each side of said bar 9 while the top 12 is adapted to ride on the roller 11. This channel bar is equipped with a depending handle 14 at'it's outer end which may be grasped to draw the member outwardly. At the rear end of the channel member a fixture is secured made up of two identical pieces of flat metal, each having a vertical middle portion to lie alongside each of the sides 13 of the channel member to which they are permanently secured, each section 15 at its upper and lower ends being turned-inwardly for a short distance and then extended upwardly and downwardly making other vertical sections 16 which at their up per and lower ends are turned inwardly toward each other making horizontal sections 17 (see Fig. 2). A roller 18 is rotatably mounted above the bar 9 between the upwardly extending sections 16 and a second roller 19 is rotatably mounted between the downward- 1y extending sections 16 below the bar 9. The upper side 12 of the channel member at its inner end is cut away to permit the roller 18 to bear against the upper side of said fixed bar 9. This provides an anti-friction mounting for the movable extension channel member of the garment carrier, roller 18 riding on the upper side of the bar 9 until the weight at the outer projecting portion of the carrier in front of the roller 11 overbalances that back of said roller whereupon the lower roller 19 will ride against the under side of the fixed bar 9.

A holding member in the shape of an elongated bar 20 of wood is hingedly connected at one side at 21 to the intermediate supporting blocks 3*, being located directly over the garment carrier. At its under edge it is curved in the arc of a circle and may be equipped with a facing strip 22 of rubber formed with a series of alternate rises and depressions thereof. This strip may be plain instead of corrugated without departing in any way from the invention. The hooks 23 of the garment hangers 24, placed over and resting on the movable channel member of the carrier,

are engaged by this strip 22 and held against upward movement so that the hooks cannot disengage from the carrier when the holding member 20 is in the position shown in Fig. 1; but by turning member 20 about the axes of the hinges 21 it may be disengaged from the hooks and when the extension member of the carrier is drawn outwardly the garments with their hangers are freely removable from the garment carrier. It is evident also that the member 20 with its facing 22, serves to lock the movable member of the carrier from any longitudinal movement when it is in engagement with the garment hanger hooks. Also when the facing strip 22 is of corrugated form it holds the hooks in the depressions of the facing member from movement toward each other. When the carrier is extended the upwardly projecting housing for the roller 18 coming against a side of the member 20 holds it from dropping down into operative position, and after the garment carrier is started outwardly the holding member 20 is held out of the Way all of the time that the carrier is in either wholly or partly extended position, dropping automatically into operative position when the movable member of the carrier is moved inwardly to its extreme inner position.

This hanger or the two of them mounted in the vehicle body 2 may be used to carry garments on the hangers 2 1 and it is also intended to suspend from the movable channel member of each carrier two rods 26 at the inner and outer ends of said member which, at their lower ends, may be divided so as to connect with the corners of a tray or like receptacle, indicated at 25, in which various articles to be transported may be carried.

In Figs. 7, 8 and 9 a slightly different form of construction is shown, the construction of the carrier itself being identical with that shown in Figs. 1 to 24 inclusive. The holding member 27 however is of altered form and is mounted differently. This member, preferably, is of metal extending downwardly toward the carrier and at its lower end being formed with a laterally extending curved Wing 28 faced on its under side with a rubber strip 29', which may bind against the hooks 23 of the garment hangers. The member 27 at each end is equipped with a pin 30, the same being adapted to pass through suitable openings made in the brackets 4 and 5, the inner end of the member 27 being cut away to accommodate the roller 18 and its housing, this being indicated at 31 in Fig. 7 This eliminates the necessity of using separate supporting blocks 3 for the holding member. In use, operation and advantages this member is identical with that shown in Figs. 1 and 4 and which has been previously described. While the facing strips 22 and 29 are preferably of rubber it is not essential that rubber be used as many other equivalent materials may be used quite as well and serve the same purpose.

This construction is very practical and eflicient in use and is comparatively simple and economical in construction. The form of the bracket 5 with the enlarged recess is a desirable feature of the invention inasmuch as the hooks for the garment hangers are readily re ceived and pass therethrough whatever their shape. In Fig. 3 one form of hook is indicated in full lines and a second quite as common hook indicated in'dotted lines, both being passed freely by the bracket 5. It is neces sary that the structure be of this form as in the transportation of garments on garment hangers it is impractical to require that the hooks of all of the garment hangers be of the same character. The invention is defined in the appended claims which is to be considered as comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim: V

1. In an extension garment carriera sta-.

tionary bar, a movable bar mounted on and traversing the stationary bar, and a holding bar mounted above and parallel with saidmovable bar and mounted to swing on a hori zontal axis so that it may be brought into and out of engagement with said movable bar or with the hooks of garment hangers suspended from said movable bar.

2. In an extension garment hanger, an over-head support, spaced apart brackets at tached to and depending from said over-head support, a fixed horizontal bar attached to and lying between said brackets, an extension member movably mounted on said fixed bar and adapted to traverse the same, and a holding member disposed between said brackets and pivotally mounted to turn about a horizontal axis whereby the under side thereof may be brought into engagement with the extension member or the hooks of garment hangers suspended therefrom and may also be moved away from engagement therewith, substantially as described.

3. In an extension garment hanger, spaced apart depending brackets, a fixed bar horizontally disposed between and connected to said brackets, a movable extension member mounted to traverse said bar and over which the hooks of garment hangers may be placed, a holding member comprising an elongated bar disposed between said brackets and provided with pintles at its ends loosely received in openings in said brackets near the upper ends thereof, the under side of said holding member being adapted to engage against said extension member or hooks of garment hangers suspended therefrom and also be pivotally movable so as to entirely disengage therefrom.

4. An extension garment carrier comprising spaced apart depending brackets, a fixed supporting bar horizontally disposed between and connected to said brackets, an extensible carrier member mounted to traverse said fixed bar, at its inner end being provided with rollers disposed one above and the other below the bar, a housing to carry said rollers extending above and below the extensible member, and a holding member located lengthwise of and above the extensible member formed at its ends with pintles loosely mounted in openings in said brackets, said holding member adjacent its rear end having a portion cut away whereby when the extension member is at its innermost position the holding member may swing into contact engagement at its inner side with the extension member or with the books of garment hangers carried thereon, and when the extension member is, drawn outwardly from its inner position the housing for the upper roller engages against and holds the member away from said extension member, substantially as described.

5. An extension garment hanger comprising a fixed bar substantially square in cross section, inner and outer brackets for supporting said bar at its ends and locating the same in substantially horizontal position, the outer end of said bar extending beyond the outer V bracket and being divided, a roller rotatably mounted between the parts of the divided outer end of said bar, an inverted channel member located over the bar having its flanges extending downwardly at each side of the bar and its web bearing on said roller, a handle at the outer end of the channel member, a housing attached to the rear end of the channel member and extending above and below the same, and upper and lower rollers carried by said housing one above and the other below the bar, the web at the inner end of said channel member being cut away to permit the upper roller to bear against the upper side of said bar, substantially as described.

6; A garment carrier comprising, a horizontal support to receive the hooks of garment hangers and a retaining member pivotally mounted adjacent said support, the axis of said pivot being located substantially directly over said support and extending longitudinally thereof, whereby said retaining member normally hangs by gravity in engagement with garment hanger hooks upon said support to prevent their vertical removal therefrom.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOHN THOMAS BATTS. 

